Vector. Monitors. Are. Analog. You are thinking of digital vector GRAPHICS displays with hardware line-drawing support. Analog vector monitors and digital vect

Vector. Monitors. Are. Analog. You are thinking of digital vector GRAPHICS displays with hardware line-drawing support. Analog vector monitors and digital vector graphics raster displays are two different things. Vector monitors can draw nonpixellated curved lines as well as straight lines. Vector monitors can draw lines at any angle without staircasing. If a screen has pixels, it is not a vector monitor. The 1970s Asteroids arcade game had an analog vector monitor without pixels. Ditto the PDP-1 Spacewar and PDP-11 Lunar Lander, both of which I saw in the 70s. Ditto the Star Wars arcade game. Some vector monitors had rapid-fade phosphors and had to be constantly redrawn, others were bistable storage tubes that retained an image for several minutes without being redrawn. The Plato terminal did not have an analog vector monitor. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_monitor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_monitor https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_(1983_video_game) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_(1983_video_game) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1980_video_game) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1980_video_game) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-view_bistable_storage_tube https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-view_bistable_storage...